Absox
1mo ago
This website reports 213 trillion in unfunded liabilities, listing the US Treasury as its source, though I can't seem to find the exact source myself.
Absox
9mo ago
At least when I was applying for undergraduate admissions, only a few hundred kids a year were getting perfect scores on the SAT.
Absox
9mo ago
I mean without knowing what I did it's hard to say much on the topic, but unless we're talking about random and arbitrary tyranny in which the IRS makes an accounting error and insists that they're correct, and I somehow lose in court, I can't imagine owing more on taxes than I have in assets in the first place... You're really going to have to clarify how the average man can be fucked over by the IRS just like that.
Absox
9mo ago
I wouldn't say I have a greatly above average social network, but even if I somehow managed to bankrupt myself, at the very least my parents would let me move in with them...
Absox
1yr ago
The highest-IQ group chat that I'm in was formed years ago for a group project in one of the PhD-level math classes that I took back in grad school. Afterwards, we became friends, and the channel was repurposed for shitposting, and occasionally talking about research. Coincidentally, most of us ended up in the same city by one means or another, and the chat survives to this day.
Overall I think it's extremely hard to judge people, even in real life, until you've seen their work.
There's no shortage of studies on the subject, as a quick search of Google Scholar will show. There is even causal evidence from interventional studies showing that going outdoors reduces the prevalence and severity of myopia in schoolchildren.
This topic was of particular interest to the governments of Korea, Japan, and China a while back, as their rates of myopia are in the high 90% range; I believe it was their funded research that led to the development of interventions like peripheral defocus lenses, that would slow the progression of nearsightedness in children. Alas, about twenty years too late for me.
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